Run away or face your task list?

When I feel overwhelmed, I have this all-consuming sensation of wanting to run tf away.

Like... where am I going? Obviously you can't outrun your thoughts, Robyn.

I recently started running again after a minor knee surgery in 2023 and I felt like a dog off leash for the first time.

Until I went too hard in full strides like a fucking speed demon on the indoor track and re-injured it...

It felt SO GOOD to run full tilt and act like I don't fill my lungs daily with cannabis vapour and sit most of the time.

My knee had other ideas and I was *legit mad* at myself for thinking I could go SO HARD so fast.

I see freelancers doing the *metaphorical* same thing 🥲

They sprint as fast as they can on one client, giving it their fucking all like it's the only thing they got going on.

To then start sprinting in the complete opposite direction bc Client B's sudden and "oh so urgent" request just landed in the inbox.

No wonder due dates are glaring red. 😡

It's not about "failing" at being a freelancer

It's just what happens when every day is 8 hours of sprinting. 😓

You're gonna keel over, you're gonna be humbled by how sedentary this job really is, and you're gonna see just how painfully unprepared you are to catch a flight that if you miss, you're stranded in Peru during the pandemic. (Just me??)

Pacing is everything in this business 🐢

And client "emergencies"? Generally not emergencies at all.

Sometimes pacing means locking in what you're working on and sticking to it, even if that means telling the client that their emergency has to wait. ✋🏼

"No one's dying, Robyn" << my old colleague used to say this to me when I'd get wrapped up in client BS and it pissed me off.

But actually he's right... bc no one's dying Reader.

Unless someone is and then that's a different story.

If your due dates look like chicken pox, and nothing ever goes to plan...

If "I see a lot of overdue and I want to run away" feels like it was pulled right from your mind...

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Till next week,

RBH

Robyn Henke

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